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Winter Color Palette — Icicle Hush

A quiet five-color winter scheme of frost blue, silver grey, deep pine and snow white, layered for cool calm — every color matched to real paint you can buy.

By Jessica Williams · Color Stylist & Interior Editor

Frost Blue
Dominant
Kompozit Simple Serenity · 0614
#C8D9E5
LRV 68
Silver Grey
Secondary
Kompozit Marseilles · 0525
#B7BBBB
LRV 49
Snow White
Base
Kompozit Sugar Dust · 0011
#F8F6ED
LRV 92
Glacier Mist
Support
Kompozit Beacon Fog · 0490
#9CAAAC
LRV 39
Deep Pine
Accent
Kompozit Atlantic Waves · 0473
#264243
LRV 5
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Winter has a particular quiet to it, the kind you feel the morning after fresh snow when the whole world goes soft and pale. This scheme bottles that hush. Frost Blue leads as the dominant color, a cool, watery blue that catches light the way an icicle does, with Silver Grey close behind to keep it from drifting too sweet.

Snow White is the base that opens everything up, the breath of light that stops cool from sliding into cold. Glacier Mist does the connective work between the blues and greys, a slightly deeper haze that adds dimension on a wall or a low cabinet.

Then comes Deep Pine, the one note with real weight. A whisper of evergreen, it grounds the palette and nods to the season directly. Keep it to a door, a frame, or a single piece of trim, and this very contemporary cool-neutral mix stays calm, layered, and unmistakably winter.

Buy These Colors

Each color matched to the closest real paint in every brand, by ΔE2000. Kompozit first; take any SKU to the store — these mix on demand.

Frost Blue
#C7D7DE · LRV 66 · Dominant
Kompozit Simple Serenity · 0614 ΔE 2.27
Backdrop Real Real · BD-RR ΔE 13.31
Behr Sky Light View · MQ3-53 ΔE 0.49
Benjamin Moore Heaven on Earth · 1661 ΔE 1.72
Clare Nairobi Blue · PNT100-LT-36 ΔE 3.95
Dunn-Edwards Snow Lodge · DE5799 ΔE 0.96
Farrow & Ball Borrowed Light · No. 235 ΔE 4.66
Magnolia Home Dark Moon · JG-74 ΔE 5.86
PPG / Glidden Bit Of Heaven · 1156-2 ΔE 1.18
Sherwin-Williams Balmy · SW 6512 ΔE 1.37
Valspar Elevation · 8004-39B ΔE 1.37
Silver Grey
#B6BCBE · LRV 50 · Secondary
Kompozit Marseilles · 0525 ΔE 1.25
Backdrop Underdog · BD-UD ΔE 4.98
Behr French Silver · PPU18-05 ΔE 0.96
Benjamin Moore Thundercloud Gray · 2124-40 ΔE 0.9
Clare Cloud Watching · PNT100-MD-73 ΔE 5.61
Dunn-Edwards Crestline · DE6325 ΔE 0.9
Farrow & Ball Parma Gray · No. 27 ΔE 3.06
Magnolia Home Day-to-day · JG-123 ΔE 3.4
PPG / Glidden Gray Frost · 1012-4 ΔE 0.95
Sherwin-Williams Monorail Silver · SW 7663 ΔE 1.67
Valspar Shark Loop · 4007-3B ΔE 2.78
Snow White
#F4F5F3 · LRV 91 · Base
Kompozit Sugar Dust · 0011 ΔE 3.33
Backdrop Tabula Rasa · BD-TR ΔE 4.19
Behr Luster White · W-B-600 ΔE 0.56
Benjamin Moore Chantilly Lace · 2121-70 ΔE 1.68
Clare Timeless · PNT100-LT-04 ΔE 2.84
Dunn-Edwards Lighthouse · DEW385 ΔE 1.08
Farrow & Ball All White · No. 2005 ΔE 2.12
Magnolia Home True White · JG-21 ΔE 1.51
PPG / Glidden Delicate White · 1001-1 ΔE 1.21
Sherwin-Williams High Reflective White · SW 7757 ΔE 1.96
Valspar New Ream · V148 ΔE 1.48
Glacier Mist
#9AAAAE · LRV 39 · Support
Kompozit Beacon Fog · 0490 ΔE 1.08
Backdrop Nuevo · BD-NU ΔE 7.56
Behr Portsmouth Bay · QE-52 ΔE 1.77
Benjamin Moore Pilgrim Haze · 2132-50 ΔE 3.46
Clare Mellow Mood · PNT100-DP-78 ΔE 5.26
Dunn-Edwards Irogon Blue · DEC796 ΔE 2.83
Farrow & Ball Dix Blue · No. 82 ΔE 5.79
Magnolia Home Vintage Weathervane · JG-137 ΔE 6.49
PPG / Glidden Polaris · 10-04 ΔE 2.78
Sherwin-Williams Meditative · SW 6227 ΔE 1.46
Valspar Pearl Gray · 8004-37E ΔE 0.59
Deep Pine
#2C4039 · LRV 4 · Accent
Kompozit Atlantic Waves · 0473 ΔE 4.7
Backdrop After Hours · BD-AH ΔE 7.27
Behr Black Swan · 710F-7 ΔE 2.34
Benjamin Moore Salamander · 2050-10 ΔE 4.83
Clare Blackish · PNT100-DP-54 ΔE 11.64
Dunn-Edwards Refined Green · DEA181 ΔE 4.85
Farrow & Ball Pitch Black · No. 256 ΔE 12.23
Magnolia Home Moments · JG-150 ΔE 16.57
PPG / Glidden Black Magic · 1001-7 ΔE 11.96
Sherwin-Williams Roycroft Bottle Green · SW 2847 ΔE 2.34
Valspar Deep River Green · 5010-3 ΔE 4.66

Questions

Will frost blue and silver grey feel too cold together?

They run cool, but that is the point of this scheme. Snow White warms the mix just enough by adding light, and the deep pine accent gives your eye something rich to rest on, so the room reads serene rather than chilly.

Where should the deep pine go in a winter scheme?

Use it in small, deliberate doses, roughly one-fifth of the space. A single door, a built-in shelf, or trim lets the pine ground all that pale blue and grey without tipping the room dark.

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